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" The majority of placebos are given because we believe the patient . . . has learned to expect medicine for every symptom, and without it he simply won't get well. True, but who taught him to expect a medicine for every symptom? He was not born with that... "
Social Service and the Art of Healing: By Richard C. Cabot - Page 161
by Richard Clarke Cabot - 1909 - 192 pages
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New York State Journal of Medicine, Volume 4

1904 - 440 pages
...do no good. You deceive the patient and it is only when we act like quacks that our placebos work. The majority of placebos are given because we believe...be satisfied without them. He has learned to expect a medicine for every symptom, and without it he simply won't get well. True, but who has taught him...
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Faith and the Professions

Thomas L. Shaffer - 1987 - 354 pages
...corrupt earthy friendship. Dr. Richard C. Cabot, a turnof-the century medical dissenter, is an example: "The majority of placebos are given because we believe...He has learned to expect medicine for every symptom . . . but who taught him to expect a medicine for every symptom? He was not born with that expectation....
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